Study: Hollywood is still very much a man's world
The latest study on women in front of the camera finds that female characters are still significantly under-represented on the big screen.
The numbers underscore why pics like “Gravity” (pictured), toplined by a Sandra Bullock, remain a rarity at the multiplexes. Female characters accounted for only 15% of protagonists in the 100 highest-grossing domestic films of 2013, according to the study “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World” by veteran researcher Martha Lauzen, exec director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State U.
The femme protagonist stats are up 4% from 2011, the last time the survey was conducted, but down 1% from 2002.
Female actors accounted for 30% of all speaking parts in the survey, which has examined some 7,000 screen characters across 300 pics since 2002. Only about 13% of 2013′s top 100 pics featured an equal number of female and male characters.
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/study-female-characters-under-represented-in-movies-1201129236/